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The Market Week in Review :

The new mayor of New York City likes to talk about Gotham as a "Tale of Two Cities". Last week the behavior of stocks markets around the world seemed to be a "Tale of Two Cities". Some indices were quite bullish, like the S&P index in the USA, which soared to a new all-time high, and even the NASDAQ Composite, which soared to its highest level in 14 years. Many other markets continued their rallies last week following their recent lows February 3-5, shortly after Venus turned direct. But none of these other indices made new highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, for instance, tested 16,400 on Friday, February 28, but this was well off its all-time high of 16,588 on December 31. At the end of Friday, it sold off a bit to close at 16,321.

In Europe, the German DAX, Zurich SMI, and London FTSE all made valiant attempts to make new all-time highs, but failed. In Amsterdam, the AEX was considerably weaker. It was down all week and remains well below its multi-year high of 408.93, achieved on January 15.

But it was a tale of another market altogether in Russia, China, and Brazil, each of which declined and were testing multi-month lows.

Gold, Silver, and Crude Oil all looked strong when the week began. But when Jupiter squared Uranus on Wednesday, they reversed down too - even though the Euro currency spiked up sharply on Friday against the U.S. Dollar. The grain markets showed much life - the kind of "life" you would expect with Uranus square Pluto, which can represent a threat to the growing or harvesting of foods. Despite the reported low inflation environment, foods and metals continue to show strength. How long before it shows up in the price indexes ? Probably about as long as it will take the Federal Reserve to give an accounting of how much Gold it really holds in Fort Knox, which is another topic of intrigue altogether that may get revealed shortly, by way of China, which is due in April to give a five-year report on its Gold holdings. Five years ago it showed holding of slightly over 1,000 tons and the USA well-over 5,000 tons. There is speculation those numbers may be reversed- that China now has over 5,000 tons - and if so.... someone at the Fed will have some explaining to do. Since there is not that much Gold in the world for both the USA and China to have over 5,000 tons each, where did China import it all from ? This may be the revelation associated with the grand cardinal cross in April that shocks the world.

Best Trades of the Past Week :

The best new weekly trades took place in March e-mini NASDAQ futures, which stated, " Aggressive traders are also long (from 3465 back in week of February 3) with a stop-loss on a close below 3400 or 3440, depending on your risk allowance. You may take nice profits on 1/3 of these longs now, and then cover the remainder and go short if prices trade to 3700 +/- 10, with a stop-loss on a close above 3750". The high last week was right there, at 3705.

The best trades of the week in the daily report occurred in Gold on Wednesday, which advised, " Aggressive traders are long (from 1285-1290 area in early February) with a stop-loss on a close below 1273, after covering 1/3 for a healthy profit recently. Let's cover all at 1350 +/- 5, and go short there with a stop-loss on a close above 1370". The high that day was 1346.90. By Friday, it was testing 1320 and closed the week around 1330.

For more information on the daily or weekly market reports, please follow this link, or call our offices at 1-248-626-3034.

Short-Term Geocosmics :

It's a classic cosmic conflict in equities, between the bullish dynamic of several Jupiter signatures now in effect, February 26-March 6, versus the bearish pressures of Mars and Saturn turning retrograde this weekend, March 1-2. That's the cosmic explanation as to why today's global equity markets are a "Tale of Two Cities".

Last week we discussed the several geocosmic signatures taking place February 23-March 6. By itself, it would normally be enough to change the trend in many markets, like equities. However, this is still a very young primary cycle in stocks, and not the stage where huge sell offs usually begin, given that the all primary cycles since 2011 have exhibited bullish patterns. That doesn't mean a top followed by a new bear market couldn't happen. It just means it is less likely to begin here than say in April, when Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto all reside at 13 degrees of cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn), forming a grand cardinal square (or cross). Furthermore, it sits right on the USA Sun square Saturn at 13-14 Cancer-Libra. And that is when China is due to give its 5-year report on its Gold holdings.

But back to markets. Mars turns retrograde this weekend, and it is posited right on the New York Stock Exchange's Jupiter-Neptune conjunction, which is also opposite the NYSE Saturn (known as the "Buttonwood" chart of May 17,1792). This is a reversal signature, and it has a two-week orb. We can easily observe that stock prices are rallying into this time band. It could be a top of significance, according to the study of Financial Astrology. However, it is early in the primary cycle, a phase that cycle studies (at MMTA) note is usually bullish. So we wait and watch : will it be the start of big decline, or just a corrective decline ? You can't really call this market bearish until the lows of February 3-5 are taken out (15,340 in the DJIA).

Perhaps the Payroll Reports of next Friday, March 7, will provide a further clue. Investors and politicians are awaiting those reports with great anticipation. The Moon will be in Gemini then, and in square aspect to the Sun in Pisces, both mutable signs. This type of dualistic, mutable energy is likely to produce a big surprise and an equally big market reaction. Don't be surprised if next Friday's witnesses some markets making both their high and low of the week on that day, especially in the Treasuries.

Longer-Term Thoughts :

"Change is scary and can hurt ; change anyway.
Life is uncertain and often hard ; live anyway.
Love can't buy you money ; love anyway.
You will never be a famous singer ; sing anyway.
Lots of reasons to be unhappy ; choose to be happy anyway".

• From Nan Geary in the February-March edition of "The Mountain Astrologer," from a poem purportedly by Mother Teresa

Mundane and Financial Astrologers are often caught in a conflict. On the one hand, you want to be honest and tell it like it is. On the other hand, you don't want to be an alarmist. So we develop styles that try to express the positive possibilities, even when we look at various cosmic patterns and shudder to think of all the possibilities, positive and negative. Uranus square Pluto, arguably the longest and most challenging aspect of our lifetime, presents such a dilemma. That is doubly magnified now because Jupiter has joined it in a cardinal T-square, and will soon turn into a cardinal grand square with Mars in April 2014. There is no need to review all the alarming matters that have arisen in the socio-political-economic arenas in the past several months. But just consider on a personal level : do you know anyone who is not struggling with some very powerful pressures these days ? And as you look around the world, are you not stunned to see the great revolutions and social unrest taking place, from Ukraine, Venezuela, Argentina, Thailand, and Egypt, with more on the brink of explosion in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and several countries in Africa ? This is all reflective of the Uranus square Pluto aspect, June 2012 through March 2015.

And yet at the same time, there is Neptune, which has recently started its 14-year sojourn through its ruling sign of Pisces. As crazy, irrational, and potentially violent in its external transformation as Uranus/Pluto is, Neptune in Pisces is just the opposite in its internal pathway to peace and harmony. It is like being able to meditate in the midst of cannons and gunfire.

And so our longer-term thoughts remind readers with the quote above. You - we - are in the middle of a battlefield of opposing forces in the world today - forces that want to take control of... everything, at any price. But there is one thing no one can control but you : your heart, your soul, your relationship to the Infinite. This is a time that requires great inner strength to make it through, and great compassion to assist others who are struggling. It's a challenge, but we are almost to the peak.

"Don't stop just now, we got the world looking in. our window". (Morcheeba).

To be continued (next week).

Announcements :

MMA's weekly and daily reports have been extremely accurate and profitable over the past several weeks, especially in equity indices, crude oil, and precious metals. If you are an active short-term trader, or even if you are an investor who likes to keep up with our current thoughts on financial markets, you may be interested in our Weekly or Daily Market reports. It is the only way I keep in touch with traders on a daily or weekly basis. These weekly reports give in-depth analysis of the DJIA, S&P and NASDAQ futures, Euro currency (cash and futures), Dollar/Yen cash and Yen futures, Euro-Yen cash, T-Notes, Crude Oil, Soybeans, Gold and Silver. The daily reports cover all stock indices listed above, as well as futures in Euro, T-Notes, Gold and Silver, plus GLD and SLV (the Gold and Silver ETF's). Both reports provide trading strategies and recommendations for position traders as well as for shorter-term aggressive traders. Subscription to the daily report also includes the weekly report. For more information, or call our offices at 1-248-626-3034. These reports are extremely valuable to those who trade ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds).

Are you ready to begin Year 2 of the Merriman market Timing Academy? We are! The second year of MMTA courses will begin March 24-27, 2014, in Troy, Michigan. This course will focus on several things. First will be the development of a weekly and daily trading plan, based on cycles, geocosmic signatures, and solar-lunar combinations. Real-time strategies will take place every morning. Then we will address longer-term market cycles, longer-term planetary cycles, and calculations of price objective targets for long-term cycle tops and bottoms, along with their patterns and sub-cycles. From there, we will move into intermediate- and shorter-term calculations. For more information, please visit www.merrimanmta.com. There you can also view research papers on market timing findings conducted by apprentices, which are posted as they are reviewed. Some are quite valuable.

The first year of MMTA (the Merriman Market Timing Academy) is now completed! The courses (all 4 together, or separately) are available via our LMS website-uploadable venue (no postage), or in DVD, to those who wish to become students of MMA's methodology. Each course comes with a full workbook (90-130 pages each). For a complete description of these courses - and those yet to come - please visit www.merrimanmta.com , or call 1-248-626-3034.

Our monthly MMA Cycles report and its companion MMA Japanese Cycles and MMA European Cycles reports went out last week. If you are subscriber to any these monthly reports and did not receive it, let us know at once via our email.

- This report covers our long term analysis of the stock market (DJIA and S&P futures), Gold, Silver, T-Notes, Euro and Swiss Franc currencies, grains and crude oil. It also provides the list of geocosmic and solar-lunar reversal zones for the 1-2 months. This report comes out Monday night to subscribers.
- The MMA Japanese Markets Cycles report covers the Nikkei, JGB Bonds, and the Dollar-Yen.
- The new MMA Europe Cycles report covers the German DAX, Swiss SMI, and Netherlands AEX stock indices, each in english only and will be available on Wednesday.
Two-issue trial subscriptions are available for this service for $50.00, which includes the current issue and the next month's as well.
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Speaking of our weekly subscription reports, we now offer a new one titled : MMA Weekly Treasuries, Soybeans, and Crude Oil Report. This will be a 3-5 page report offering comments, analysis, forecasts, and trading strategy for next week's market activity in the U.S. 10-Year T-Notes (Treasuries), Soybeans, and Crude Oil futures only. List of support/resistance areas, trend indicator points, geocosmic and lunar reversal points for the week, cycles phasing, and recommended buy and sell strategies. The cost is $750/yr or $250/3 months. We will offer a one-month trial subscription for $50.00, available only until August 15, as part of our introduction to this new service. Subscriptions are delivered by downloadable postings on the MMA Website, which is entered via your personal password. It is also delivered via an email attachment to all subscribers over the weekend before the market opens.

If you are an active short-term trader, or even if you are an investor who likes to keep up with our current thoughts on financial markets, you may be interested in our Weekly or even Daily Market reports with short-term trading recommendations, (see a sample there, of the weekly). It is the only way I keep in touch with traders on a daily or even weekly basis, as I no longer offer personal consultations. These reports give in-depth analysis of the DJIA, S&P and NASDAQ futures, Euro currency (cash and futures), Swiss Franc, Dollar/Yen cash and Yen futures, Euro-Yen cash, T-Notes, Soybeans, Crude Oil, Gold and Silver. The daily reports cover all stock indices listed above, as well as futures in Euro, T-Notes, Soybeans, Gold and Silver. Both reports provide trading strategies and recommendations for position traders as well as for shorter-term aggressive traders. Subscription to the daily report also includes the weekly report.
If you want more information call our offices at 1-248-626-3034.
These reports are extremely valuable to those who trade ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds). In the words of one of our subscribers :I am really pleased with your recommendations through the Daily and Weekly Trade Recommendations. I have used them to trade gold and silver stocks in my IRA. In the last eight years I increased my account from $60,000 to $712,000. Thanks for your excellent publications. - Bryden C., Small Business Owner, Illinois.

Upcoming Events :

March 24-27, 2014 : Scottsdale, AZ or Troy, MI. MMTA Course 5: "Price Targets and Chart Patterns in Financial Markets". Special Guest contributor will be Noboru Takesaka.

April 10, 2014 : Ann Arbor, MI. "Financial Astrology Workshop - Gold, Silver, and the Stock Market", with Raymond Merriman, 1:00 - 6:00 PM. This is a pre-seminar to the GLAC - Great Lakes Astrology Conference, which takes place April 11-13 and features several well-known professional astrologers. For more information, or call 1-734-434-0804.

June 2-5, 2014 : MMTA Course 6 : "Advanced Support-Resistance Calculations for Trading".

August 25-28, 2014 : MMTA Course 7 : "Combining Technical Studies, Cycles, and Critical Reversal Dates for Traders".

September 25-28, 2014 : The ISAR International Astrology Conference, Phoenix, AZ. This will be the "big one" next year with dozens of well-known international astrologers present ! Mark your calendars and plan to attend it. Information will soon be available at www.iasastrology.com.

The MMA Catalogue of products and services for 2013 is now out!!! You can download it in PDF. The ordering page is the last page of the catalogue. This is especially useful for those outside of the USA, since we do not mail these out by mail unless requested.

We are pleased to announce that the Spanish publication of Basic Principles of Geocosmic Studies for Financial Market Timing has just been completed. For more information and ordering, please contact www.lecochonsideral.info/semana.html.

I am oftentimes asked for recommendations of a money manager who uses my methods, since I won't manage other people's money. The thing is, almost all money managers I know use their own systems. But many subscribe to my services and share my thoughts about the future of the economy, various financial markets, and how to position one's portfolio along these lines. One money manager who subscribes to our services that I would suggest for those looking to structure a longer-term portfolio, such as a retirement account, is Duke O'Neill of Boulder, Colorado. He can be reached at dukeoneil1@gmail.com, or 1-(303) 545-5837. For those looking for a professional trader of commodity and futures contract might consider Ted Lee Fisher at ted.fisher@comcast.net. Ted is a legend in financial futures and has a seat on the CME. Both are very knowledgeable of the tools I use, of the way I am looking at markets, and yet each makes their own decisions as to exactly when to enter and exit any market. They will be more than happy to assist you.

To the above list, I would also like to recommend long-term MMA subscriber Erwin Brunner of Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Brunner is the founder of BrunnerInvest AG. One of his five funds was awarded theBest in-house fund of funds in the world recently. Mr. Brunner is a former director of the Swiss Banking Corporation (today it is known as UBS), and a general director of Rothschild Bank in Zurich. As an independent wealth manager for high net worth individuals and institutional clients only, he places his clients into the funds of the best performing fund managers in the world, via his own research and experience. For high net worth readers interested in Mr. Brunner's funds, please contact him through www.brunnerinvest.ch.

The newly revised The Sun, The Moon, and Silver Book : Secrets of a Silver Trader, is now out. This is a book that you will use as a reference guide for...many, many years. It identifies all the key Sun-Moon combinations that have a higher (and lower) than expected probability of correlating with 4% or greater reversals in COMEX Silver. It also identifiesBig Range Days - those days in which the range of Silver is most likely to be 3.5% or more of the price of Silver, which is a great tool for day traders. This book fulfills the dream of all traders : high probability winning trade possibilities, with minimal market exposure. It is thatextra edge. And Silver is a great market to trade now. The cost is $125.00. For ordering on line.

Disclaimer and statement of purpose : The purpose of this column is not to predict the future movement of various financial markets. However, that is the purpose of the MMA (Merriman Market Analyst) subscription services. This column is not a subscription service. It is a free service, except in those cases where a fee may be assessed to cover the cost of translating this column from English into a non-English language. This weekly report is written with the intent to educate the reader on the relationship between astrological factors and collective human activities as they are happening. In this regard, this report will oftentimes report what happened in various stock and financial markets throughout the world in the past week, and discuss that movement in light of the geocosmic signatures that were in effect. It will then identify the geocosmic factors that will be in effect in the next week, or even month, or even years, and the author’s understanding of how these signatures will likely affect human activity in the times to come. The author (Merriman) will do this from a perspective of a cycle’s analyst looking at the military, political, economic, and even financial markets of the world. It is possible that some forecasts will be made based on these factors. However, the primary goal is to both educate and alert the reader as to the psychological climate we are in, from an astrological perspective. The hope is that it will help the reader understand these psychological dynamics that underlie (or coincide with) the news events and hence financial markets of the day.

No guarantee as to the accuracy of this report is being made here. Any decisions in financial markets are solely the responsibility of the reader, and neither the author nor the publishers assume any responsibility at all for those individual decisions. Reader should understand that futures and options trading are considered high risk.

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